Grade: 8 Unit:1 Week: 3 Content: ELA Dates: 9/4-9/7 Theme Essential Question: How does the urban setting contribute to the overall meaning of the texts? Essential Questions:
How do I create a well developed narrative?
Standards:
8.W.3 Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
8.W.3a: Text Types and Purpose: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or charaters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and locally.
8.W.3b: Text Types and Purpose: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
8.W.3c: Text Types and Purpose: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, siginal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationship among experiences and events.
8.W.3d: Text Types and Purpose: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details and sensory language to capture the action and convey experience and events.
8.W.3e: Text Types and Purpose: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on a narrated experiences or events.
8.W.4: Production and Distribution of Writing: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above)
Objectives:
I can write a well developed narrative.
I can use a variety of writing strategies to engage readers.
Assessment: Product
Write your own short story about a real or imagined experience that effectively explores the impact of an urban setting on characters and plot. (EC) (Cues, Questions, Organizers, Summarizing/Notetaking, Objectives/Feedback , Homework/Practice)
Prewriting Graphic Organizer
Rough Draft
Edit and Revision
Final Copy
Key Questions
What steps do you use when writing?
What are the characteristics of a narrative?
How do you implement usage of style, tone, voice, and mood of your writing?
While reading other pieces of text, reflect upon your own writing style. (Reinforcing/Recognition)
While reading other pieces of text, highlight sequencing, descriptive details, transtions in relation to your own writing and dialogue. (Reinforcing/Recognition)
Introduce a nararator and/or character in a student developed narrative. (Reinforcing/Recognition)
Create a clear and coherent narrative so the development, organization and style are easily identified and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience. (Reinforcing/Recognition)
Watch or listen to excerts of personal videos to analyze strategies to engage reading. (EC)
Lesson Plan in Word Format (Click Cancel if asked to Log In) Resources Professional Texts Literary Texts Informational Texts WebQuests
Choosing a City
http://questgarden.com/00/81/4/051107165059/ You are on the committee to choose the best place to live in America. You must choose four cities, then research and judge these cities on: Weather, Economy, Crime, Education and Cost of Living (You must decide how important each of these categories is and figure this into the city's score.) Make sure you carefully support your final decision with weighted facts. Many people will be reading your report to decide where they want to live.
Rural and Urban Lifestyles. . . Where do you live?
http://questgarden.com/79/73/4/090406071130/ This web quest is designed for middle school students to explore the difference between rural and urban lifestyles. The students will also explore their own lifestyles and decide whether they live in a urban or rural area. Art, Music, and Media Manipulatives Games Videos Sight Words SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons Other Activities, etc.
Grade: 8 Unit:1 Week: 3 Content: ELA Dates: 9/4-9/7
Theme Essential Question: How does the urban setting contribute to the overall meaning of the texts?
Essential Questions:
Standards:
Objectives:
- I can write a well developed narrative.
- I can use a variety of writing strategies to engage readers.
Assessment:Product
Key Questions
Observable Student Behaviors
Vocabulary
Contribute
Variety
Engage
Impact
Plot
Characters
Style
Tone
Voice
Mood
Homework
Terminology for Teachers
Ethnicity/Culture | Immigration/Migration | Intercultural Competence | Socialization | Racism/Discrimination
High Yield Strategies
Similarities/Differences | Summarizing/Notetaking | Reinforcing/Recognition | Homework/Practice |
Non-Linguistic representation | Cooperative Learning | Objectives/Feedback |
Generating-Testing Hypothesis | Cues, Questions, Organizers
Resources
Professional Texts
Literary Texts
Informational Texts
WebQuests
- Choosing a City
http://questgarden.com/00/81/4/051107165059/You are on the committee to choose the best place to live in America.
You must choose four cities, then research and judge these cities on: Weather, Economy, Crime, Education and Cost of Living (You must decide how important each of these categories is and figure this into the city's score.)
Make sure you carefully support your final decision with weighted facts. Many people will be reading your report to decide where they want to live.
- The Great Chicago Fire
http://questgarden.com/70/50/6/080924144840/This WebQuest invites students to participate in an investigation about the Great Chicago Fire.
- Rural and Urban Lifestyles. . . Where do you live?
http://questgarden.com/79/73/4/090406071130/This web quest is designed for middle school students to explore the difference between rural and urban lifestyles. The students will also explore their own lifestyles and decide whether they live in a urban or rural area.
Art, Music, and Media
Manipulatives
Games
Videos
Sight Words
SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons
Other Activities, etc.
Language
Arts
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